NEW : H. Moser & Cie Streamliner Flyback Chronograph
What makes a Moser watch, ‘a Moser’? I am not speaking of the high profile pieces that have garnered broad media coverage but the ‘bread and butter’ of the brand – what they make and sell. Perhaps...
View ArticleNEW : MB&F Legacy Machine Perpetual Yellow Gold
Back in 2015 MB&F launched the phenomenal Legacy Machine Perpetual with the help of watchmaker Stephen McDonnell in developing the movement, and about which we wrote here, in launch editions of 25...
View ArticleHANDS-ON : GENUS GNS 1.2
Winner of the Mechanical Exception prize at GPHG 2019, the GENUS GNS 1.2 is arguably one of the most unusual watches to have been released not just last year, but in recent times. The man behind it is...
View ArticleNEW : Laurent Ferrier Galet Annual Calendar School Piece – Vintage
In 2018 Laurent Ferrier launched the Galet Annual Calendar School Piece (or Montre École). It had been the third model in the ‘Montre École’ collection, following the original School Piece and the...
View ArticleINDUSTRY NEWS : RJ Watches files for bankruptcy
RJ Watches, previously (and more commonly known as) Romain Jerome, was a brand that launched with an unapologetically bold and niche vision – putting bits of things (Titanic, moon dust,...
View ArticleNEW : MB&F Legacy Machine FlyingT – Red Gold and Platinum Editions
If you were, as I was, one of those who wondered why the Legacy Machine FlyingT was launched in three diamond-set editions and none sans diamonds, viewing the latter as perhaps more suitable for more...
View ArticleINDUSTRY NEWS : Geneva Watch Days 2020
With the cancellation of both Watches & Wonders Geneva 2020 and Baselworld 2020, a number of brands have decided to hold an event called Geneva Watch Days over the period during which Watches &...
View ArticleNEWS : H.Moser & Cie launches certified pre-owned sales platform
The move towards selling certified pre-owned watches continues, with H.Moser & Cie the latest brand to set up this option for potential owners. On the new dedicated website can be found pre-owned...
View ArticleINDUSTRY NEWS : Geneva Watch Days rescheduled to August 2020
In some ways, time has become both something of which we are more acutely aware and simultaneously something from which many feel disconnected from at present, but it was only at the beginning of this...
View ArticleNEW : MB&F Horological Machine HM10 Bulldog
As Max Büsser and the MB&F team acknowledge with this latest launch – “the situation is unusual to say the least. Is it right to launch a new timepiece in this context?” For small brands, for small...
View ArticleNEW : H. Moser & Cie.’s new online sale portal, and new Vantablack® models
We recently mentioned H.Moser et Cie’s foray into directly selling pre-owned pieces. Now, they have gone one step further, with the launch of a new site that sells a selection of new pieces and along...
View ArticleNEW : GoS Skadi – Viking Goddess of Winter
One of the more unexpected non COVID-19-related things that has happened over the last few weeks has been two reminders of a time, years ago, when I set myself what turned out to be an overly ambitious...
View ArticleWATCHES & WONDERS GENEVA 2020 : Laurent Ferrier Grand Sport Tourbillon
Last year Laurent Ferrier, a brand best known for an at times creative take on classical watches and the quality of its finishing, released their first luxury sports watch. The Grand Sport Tourbillon...
View ArticleNEW : URWERK UR-100 Gold Edition and COVID-19 auction
For all the brand’s extrovert designs and characteristics, brightness of case material, although not alien to them, is also not one’s first thought when thinking about URWERK. Of this new limited...
View ArticleNEW : DB28XP – De Bethune marks a decade of the DB28
This year De Bethune is marking ten years since the launch of the first DB28 with three new pieces that are, as they say, familiar but different – the DB28XP, the DB28XP Starry Sky, and the DB28XP...
View ArticleINDUSTRY NEWS: Geneva Watch Days update
Launched in March 2020 as a response to the cancellation of this year’s major watch fairs, the Geneva Watch Days event, which had been postponed to August, has announced that they still plan to hold...
View ArticleNEW: MB&F and H.Moser & Cie collaboration
An unexpected partnership between two very different brands and a decade long relationship between Edouard Meylan and Maximilian Büsser have lead to MB&F putting a new spin on the ‘friends’ of the...
View ArticleNEW: GENUS GNS1.2 TD
Last year we had the opportunity to see one of the more fascinating pieces that have crossed our paths in recent times, the GENUS GNS1.2, about which you can read at this link. We were clearly not...
View ArticleNEW: Laurent Ferrier Classic Origin Opaline
Laurent Ferrier is marking a decade with the launch of the Classic Origin Opaline, its first piece in a titanium. The new Classic Origin Opaline features the same pebble-inspired case design of the...
View ArticleNEW: Sarpaneva x Moomin
For a number of years now, the official custodians of the Moomin legacy have celebrated ‘Moomin’s Day’ on the 9th of August, the date chosen because it is the birthday of writer and illustrator Tove...
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